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He said: “Joe is part of our alignment group, he is our line out co-ordinator. He is pretty calm but he has other guys around him. Ian [Madigan] and Rhodri [Williams] are part of that group as well, Steven Luatua is as well so they have an understanding of our game plan and other responsibilities as well. Joe was the guy to run for that week.”

In the modern game we it has become a familiar sight to see coaches dictating every decision in the game from the sidelines, with assistant coaches acting as water boys while making key calls in matches.

But Lam has come up with a system where he is preparing his leaders to make most of the major calls themselves in a more traditional style.

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“What I did say is if you make the decision to put it in the corner then it is the team’s responsibility to score. We put it in the corner and we didn’t get our lineout right, but we recovered it and had an opportunity to score twice in that movement and we didn’t. So I don’t blame the decision, because once the decision is made we back it, we get behind the captain because he has made it, or the goal kicker that’s made it.

“I just like to ask questions, challenge them, get them to think and make sure they have got everything thought about.

"That’s the beauty of having that group, it’s not all the onus on one person, that’s the last thing you need, you need that responsibility shared."